Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-03-21
THE DOODLE ALDERMAN.
Little Katie Metz Identities Cieary as
One ofthe Combine-Ex. Mayor Edison
Called to the stand.
New YORK, March l,

New YORK, March 10.
AT the opening of the trial of Thomas
Cieary, the indicted Doodle alderman. today.
MIS- Harriet Massett, the old lady who lived
next door to Alderman Mclaughlin, gaze
SUBSTANTIALLY the same testimony az at the
McQnade and O'Neil trials. People often
misIook her house for McLaughlin's. and she
iiad made the same mistake once or twice
herself.
Matte Metz wss the next witness. She is
Mrs Massstrs girl. She created some dis.
'utoance IN the breasts of the defendants
counsel, and little consequent excitement
10 court, by declaring that she had forgotten
Inc name OF the family with whom she was
nrst IN service on fifteenth street. She mar.
rated afresh her story of the several groups
OF men who, esrly one evening in the SUNNI r
nj 1851, called at Mrs, Masseu's house for
Mr.. Mclaughlin, and were directed by her to
the next door, and repeated their visits and
inquiries week or Two la'er. She identi-
he'd Cleary as one of the men who called
twice. On the objection of Mr.. Shsfer, Jus.
lice Is trrett rdled against the bringing OF the
Graphic pictures into the case this time Miss
Me'z sand that she could not say that Clearv
WAS IN either of the two parties OF men til at
called on the first night. She could not
swear that he was in the party that called on
the second night al McLaug ghin's house, two
weeks later than the first occasion, nor on
the third occasion, which was a week after
the second occasion. She never contradicted
herself, though her examination was critical.
She saw Cleary on one or more of these oc.
caslons. which one of them she could not or
would not swear to, nor what clothing he
wore. She remembered seeing Cleary twice
IN the summer of 1854, but could not state
The time rplSnysly On bo attra
examination Katie picked out and identified
Fullgrsff as one OF the callers at McLsugh-
Inns mouse in 1884, and said that she did not
see them again until the trial of McQuade in
December.
Cleary was told to put on his hat and stand
up. be did so, wearing a new Derby. Miss
Mtz sald she had not seen him with his hat
ON IN any of the identification, but thought
he wore high hat when she saw him 10 1884
Witness did not know who or what Robert
son, the detective, was Did not testify on
the first trial Of McQnsde. Did not know
what Fullgratf and Duffy swore to on that
trial or the second. Mr.. Purdy had never
pointed out or aided her in recognizing any
body. This concluded her evidence.
Francis j. Tuomey, the clerk of the board
OF aldermen tor many years, was called to
the stand, and the reading of documentary
eNluence, on the passage or the franchise at
the meeting of Aug. 80, 1884. began, and
lasted several hours, after which ex Mayor
Edison was called to the witness stand.
Although Mayor E1son and the board of al
dermen had a running fight all through 1884
the man who sturdily opposed them had
never before been put on the stand in the
aldermaDic trials. He testified that none Of
the aldermen had ever conferred with him
as mayor regarding his obJections stated in
his memorable veto message of Aug 6, 1854,
to the Broadway franchise hill, except Waite
and FulIgraf. These had talked with him
several Times. lie had never been asked bv
auy alderman what his authority was for the
statement i'll the message that 81 .000,0 be-
sides the legal rental and percentage could
be got for the city in payment = TIE Broad E
way franchise. Nothing new was elicited in
the ecross-examnation.